Italian authorities brought 59 illegal boat migrants to shore in Lampedusa on Saturday night, despite claiming to have closed Italy’s ports to migrants earlier this month. After spotting a wooden boat a mile from the coast of the Pelagie Islands, the Italian Coast Guard and the Guardia di Finanza intercepted the 59 illegal migrants and escorted them back to Favaloro Pier in Lampedusa where the migrants... 

Liechtenstein (population 37,000) has a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) larger than 14 African states, while Belgium (pop. 11m) and Australia (pop. 24m) have a GDP larger than 41 African states and their population of more than 990 million all added together—definitive proof that achievement is linked to race, and not “environment.” Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a measure of the value of economic... 

In a mission that was intended to target the Boko Haram, an Islamic Terrorist group, a Nigerian fighter jet mistakenly dropped a bomb on a refugee camp killing dozens of refugees and volunteers. From USA Today: A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists mistakenly bombed a refugee camp Tuesday, killing more than 100 refugees and wounding aid workers, a Borno state... 

At least 32 people were killed and 80 wounded after an explosive device went off at a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola, humanitarian agencies say. “Thirty-two people were killed and 80 have been injured,” Reuters quoted a Red Cross official as saying., Another official from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Sa’ad Bello, later confirmed the same numbers... 

Members of the Boko Haram terrorist group at an undisclosed location in Nigeria. The Chadian army says 71 soldiers from the Central African country’s units of government forces have been killed and 416 others injured during the two-and-a-half months of fighting with Nigeria-based Boko Haram Takfiri militants. Chad’s army chief, General Brahim Seid, told reporters in the capital, N’Djamena,... 

The leader of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau (C) delivering a speech. Boko Haram has grown from a small terror group to a mini-country with its own territory, which can be compared to gains made by the Islamic State (IS). Boko Haram now controls an area the size of Costa Rica or Slovakia. The militant group’s territory now totals about 52,000 square kilometers, according... 

US troops landed in Africa’s Uganda on October 19. US troops will also be deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the Central African Republic and in Southern Sudan. What does Washington need in Africa? The goal of the operation is to help the countries of the region struggle against Lord’s Resistance Army terrorist group. Sources at the Pentagon and Obama’s administration...